Jay Ajayi suffered a torrid return to London as the travel-weary Miami Dolphins were beaten 20-0 by the New Orleans Saints at Wembley.

Misfiring Miami have travelled 16,790 miles so far this season, playing their last three games in Los Angeles, New York and London. The Arsenal-supporting running back, who was restricted to 46 rushing yards from 12 carries, was furious as the Dolphins sank to back-to-back defeats.

‘In three games we haven't scored enough points,’ said the 24-year-old. ‘We need to have some pride in ourselves and have some respect for ourselves and put some points on the board.’

A tearful Jay Ajayi leaves the Wembley pitch after the Miami Dolphins are beaten 20-0

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‘Everyone needs to be held accountable on our offence because we're not doing what we need to do and we need to figure it out,’ Ajayi added.

'I would have loved to have had a great game for my family to be able to come back here. All of that being said, this was our next opportunity to get a win. We lost last week, we needed to bounce back last week and didn't.'

The 24-year-old was the poster boy for this season's raft of four games in the capital. He became the first NFL player to have his own emoji and launched his own clothing brand on Friday.

Ajayi only rushed 46 yards from 12 carries as the Dolphins lost to the New Orleans Saints

But despite a brief meeting with hero Thierry Henry before the game, he was left frustrated.

'It was a good trip. I got to see my family, but this was the main objective of the trip. This is all that mattered on the trip. Regardless of anything I did the last couple days this was the primary objective to get a win and we didn't do that.'

The Saints were guided to victory by veteran quarterback Drew Brees, who threw two touchdown passes to outstanding wide receiver Michael Thomas and promising rookie running back Alvin Kamara. Kicker Wil Lutz added two field goals.

A tired and weary Ajayi has clocked up 16,790 miles during the Dolphins last three matches

While the game was low scoring, it was far from a classic, something the Saints head coach Sean Payton recognised. ‘It doesn’t have to be aesthetically pleasing to be effective. There’s a number of things we’re going to want to clean up, but it was good enough tonight.’

His bemused Miami counterpart Adam Gase was at a loss to explain Miami’s misery with the ball. In three games they have scored just 25 points, and it was the first time the team have failed to score in almost four years.

‘We want to figure out what's going on and fix it, that's really the only thing we're concerned about. We’ve got the guys here, we're just trying out what's going on, why are we stumbling?’

Both teams were plagued by communication problems during the first quarter with frequency issues shutting down Miami’s coach-player headsets. To make things fair, the NFL shut down Saints headsets for the first quarter. ‘That should never happen in an NFL game,’ said Payton.